Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Iowa

Council Bluffs Police Department

Council Bluffs, IA · ~139 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Council Bluffs Police Department runs at 460% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Council Bluffs Police Department: 14.7 TCR = 460% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Council Bluffs Police Department safety composite

Council Bluffs Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Council Bluffs Police Department: 10.7 → 18.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Council Bluffs Police Department's TCR rose 8.1 from 10.7 in 2023 to 18.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Council Bluffs, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 460% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #16/18
  • PHOTO CPD-7th District Pol…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CPD-7th District Police Station | 1438 W. 63rd St. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Council Bluffs Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Council Bluffs Police Department averages 14.7 TCR (460% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Council Bluffs Police Department TCR series: 2023=10.7 · 2024=18.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Council Bluffs Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 18 Police departments (except Ame employers in Iowa.

Council Bluffs Police Department (139 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Council Bluffs Police Department
Council Bluffs Police Department (139 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Council Bluffs Police Department has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 18.8 14.1 18 6 0
2023 10.7 2.9 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Council Bluffs

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 165 employers in Council Bluffs, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR CPD-7th District Police Station | 1438 W. 63rd St. 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Safety 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monroe Police Department 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Jacksonville Police Department 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kinzler Construction Services-CIA 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE RELCO Locomotives, Inc. 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2231 LOWE S OF CEDAR RAPIDS IA 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant 1,486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830022 JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSP 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6183-61830022 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs IA 742 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0566 Boston 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crew One Productions - Gulf Shores 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR D.W. Transport & Leasing Inc. 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR KYB001 14.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Three Rivers Mi - 3301 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverview Operator LLC 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgeline Pipe Manufacturing 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAS US Holdings, Inc. 139 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.